Practice Tracks is tomorrow -- Meet practitioners from over 50 different practice areas. Come dressed for
success with your business cards and questions ready to ask practitioners in
your practice areas of interest. Make
strategic friends. Set up a coffee date
or two. This unmatched networking
opportunity will be held at the Chicago Bar Association on Thursday, February
21st from 5-6:30pm. If you
have class, stay long enough to make a strategic connection or two.
Don’t miss this event. Jobs, mentors, and more have been originated
at Practice Tracks!
Not quite sure how to successfully network? Attend Creating Effective Connections today, Wednesday, February 20th from 4:30-5:30pm in Lewis 341. Learn how to work a room, create and retain
strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your
social media, and more! Pizza will be
served. Please RSVP on Symplicity so we
know how much to order.
Stop by DePaul’s sixth annual Career Week for a series of career-related activities and seminars. Career
Week, a University-wide week of programming, events are open to current DePaul students,
including CPE, and alumni. Events take place on the Loop, Lincoln Park and
suburban campuses.
Career Week events are open to current DePaul students,
including CPE students, and DePaul alumni.
These events will be especially useful for students in career transition
and adult students.
We highly recommend stopping by these events to aid your job
search or career transition:
Finding Your Way to
the Right Career – Monday, February 18 at 3:00 - 4:00pm
G.R.O.W Your
Network: Defining Goals While Seeking Opportunities & Promoting Others
- Wednesday, February 20 at 12:30 - 2:00pm
Ask the Career Advisor
– Thursday, February 21 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Networking is Dead
– Friday, February 22 at 9:00am – 10:00am
Meet practitioners from over 50 different practice areas at
Practice Tracks. Come dressed for
success with your business cards and questions ready to ask practitioners in
your practice areas of interest. Make
strategic friends. Set up a coffee date
or two. This unmatched networking
opportunity will be held at the Chicago Bar Association on Thursday, February
21st from 5-6:30pm. If you
have class, stay long enough to make a strategic connection or two. Don’t miss this event. Jobs, mentors, and more have been originated
at Practice Tracks!
Not quite sure how to successfully network? Attend Creating Effective Connections on
Wednesday, February 20th from 4:30-5:30pm in Lewis 341. Learn how to work a room, create and retain
strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your
social media, and more! Pizza will be
served. Please RSVP on Symplicity so we
know how much to order.
Meet practitioners from over 50 different practice areas at Practice
Tracks. Come dressed for success with
your business cards and questions ready to ask practitioners in your practice
areas of interest. Make strategic
friends. Set up a coffee date or
two. This unmatched networking opportunity
will be held at the Chicago Bar Association on Thursday, February 21st
from 5-6:30pm. If you have class, stay
long enough to make a strategic connection or two. Don’t miss this event. Jobs, mentors, and more have been originated
at Practice Tracks!
Not quite sure how to successfully network? Attend Creating Effective Connections on Wednesday,
February 20th from 4:30-5:30pm in Lewis 341. Learn how to work a room, create and retain
strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your
social media, and more! Pizza will be
served. Please RSVP on Symplicity so we
know how much to order.
Good luck on exams!
The LCS staff knows you're working hard preparing for exams, so LCS
wants to help make it a bit easier. From December 6-19th between 9am and
6pm, we're offering free coffee/tea/hot chocolate, movie clips, and a
raffle. We're also offering free chair massages (various days/times) to
help you re-charge during the final push of the semester.Come in or
call to sign up for your free chair massage by a Body Peace massage
therapist. More details here.
If you want to bid on interviews for the Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference, please register for the no later than Wednesday, December 5, 2012.
Just send your name, email, graduation date, and whether you registered
last year to Alisa Rosales at arosale3 [at] depaul.edu. The conference
will be held on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Northwestern Law. More
details here.
Interested in 2013 Equal Justice Works Summer Corps funding? The application is opening much earlier this year -- December 18, 2012! More details here.
1Ls, if you did not attend the LCS Orientation in October, the video and its quiz are now available online. More details here.
On Friday, November 9th and
Saturday, November 10th, representatives from the U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office (USPTO) will be at the USPTO-Detroit Office interviewing qualified
candidates for an exciting career as a Patent Examiner.
Yearning for a job that
harnesses the power of innovation, yet provides work/life balance? As a Patent
Examiner with the USPTO, you’ll be working with the largest Intellectual
Property Rights entity in the nation. You’ll be supporting economic growth and
positing America as one of the world’s top innovators. You’ll gain experience,
training and mentorship you won’t get anywhere else. You’ll conduct research
and interact with applicants who are working on inventive, modern
breakthroughs. You’ll have access to alternative, flexible schedules, telework,
bonuses and paid overtime.
If you are headed to Equal Justice Works Conference & Career Fair this weekend, here's some helpful links. Much of this information applies to all public interest job fairs, as well as job fairs generally.
For students interested in pursuing public interest careers, student registration for the Equal Justice Works Conference & Career Fair in Arlington, Virginia will open on Wednesday, August 15, 2012. You'll have until September 13, 2012 to complete your applications to the employers. If you wish to stay at the conference hotel, the information is here.